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How technology has redefined privacy

By Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury News

Updated:
12/15/2013 05:34:43 PM EST

How technology has redefined privacy

Devices fill the camera room at 3VR, a San Francisco company that has developed a computer program to quickly scan huge quantities of video to find a specific face. (Lipo Ching/Bay Area News Group)Rapidly developing facial recognition programs feed on the billions of photos taken every year, creating a “post-private” world. It's one of the many ways digital technologies are turning our once-personal lives into a global show-and-tell and redefining our expectations of privacy.We're no longer just strangers in a ...